Mobile cellular subscriptions reached 11.2 mil in 2016 in Switzerland, according to World Bank.
This is
0.442 %
less than
in the previous year.

Historically, mobile cellular subscriptions in Switzerland reached an all time high of 11.3 mil in 2017 and an all time low of 0.005 mil in 1987.
When compared to Switzerland's main peers, mobile cellular subscriptions
in Austria amounted to 14.3 mil, 67.6 mil in France, 103 mil in Germany and 86.0 mil in Italy in 2016.

Switzerland has been ranked 81st within the group of 179 countries we follow in terms of mobile cellular subscriptions,
26 places behind the position seen 10 years ago.

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology which provide access to the public switched telephone network.

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Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology which provide access to the public switched telephone network. Post-paid and prepaid subscriptions are included. The first hand-held mobile phone was demonstrated by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing around 1 kg. In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first to be commercially available. From 1990 to 2011, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 mil to nearly 6 bil, so the global penetration of the mobile phone was approximately 86% as of 2011, according to ITU.